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It's true in general that since the political awakening of the mid-10s that the liberal staff of DC were embarrassed by the very concept of Batman and have been pivoting him to someone they wouldn't be so ashamed of. Tynion took away his billions and wrote him as the least useful person in Joker War, Zdarsky had Catwoman and the rest of the Batfam reject his stopping all crime philosophy for "ethical theft," Thomas Wayne became an asshole who had a rocky marriage and an affair because "there are no ethical billionaires," Jim Gordon is now a murderer. This was further political signaling, but this issue was far more benign than others DC have published. I'm okay with a less Millerish kinder, gentler Batman, I prefer bronze age Batman anyway.